Villanelle and Triolet Month!

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Published: Jul 25, 2003

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Welcome to Poetic Forms, a community where people who want to learn about and write with traditional poetic forms can do so together.  It was created by alenia on May 22, 2003.

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Joining
To join this community, please send a NOTE (as opposed to writing a devious comment) with the subject "Joining" saying that you want to join and linking any formed poems you may have written already.

No prior experience is needed to join, all that is needed is your interest.  We have not denied anyone who asked to join, and we appreciate everyone who joins.
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Welcome to zeroonenothing and entropolity!
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Announcements
I will be away for the next month with limited internet access, so expect a delay in any notes you may send. alenia

Also, we now have a message board! daniela.creative-flow.net/poet… Please only join once you are a member of this community.  Have fun!
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Write-Ups
If you want to do the official write-up on any forms with a specified rhyme scheme, meter, and/or repetition, please note poetic-forms.  If you just have information on the forms but don't want to write it up, send a note as well and we will pass the information on to whoever would like to do the write-up. The write ups will contain a brief history of the form, perhaps an example, and a full description of the rhyme scheme, meter, common themes, etc. All write ups shall be channeled through this page (i.e. the text should be sent in a note here) and from here it will be submitted as a deviation.

pending write-ups
rengay fallingsilver
haibun fyehroqs-fugue
sonnets alenia and nepasavaler

Form of the Month
July is Villanelle and Triolet Month!
This month features two forms because as someone alerted me villanelles are pretty long poems and may be a daunting task to undertake, unlike pantoums which could be many possible lengths.  For that reason, I decided to feature both villanelles and triolets.

A villanelle is a 19 lined poem made up of 5 tercets and a quatrain.  The tercets rhyme aba and the quatrain rhymes abaa, where the a's and the b's are the same throughout.  Two lines, the first lines and third lines of the first stanza, switch off in the job of the last lines of the stanza and in the quatrain form a couplet at the end.  That's the best I could do for a brief description; please see the write-up for more information.

Member-Composed Villanelles
Here are some of the pantoums our members have written:
But on this Edge by elenehn
Dylanelle by tessuraea
Liquid Fantasy by hojucult
A Kiss is Nothing by nepasavaler
The Pendulum by darkcrescendo
Seeing Differently by alenia

See the devpack for more!

A triolet is a 8 lined poem with two repeated lines.  If the repeated lines are marked as A and B the form would be ABaAabAB.  see the write-up for more information.
Member Composed Triolets
A Winter Morning and A Triolet by tessuraea
A Triolet about a Triolet by chiroptera
Sweetness by elenehn
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Useful Links
www.rhymer.com: An online rhyming dictionary.  Thanks scarrow!
rhyme.poetry.com: Another online rhyming dictionary/thesaurus. Thanks milpalabras!

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Members
means member has submitted a write-up, thanks!
Staff:
alenia Founder/Organizer

prevail Vice-President
tessuraea